I see that the “time” options on my pump only go as high as 1 hour. If I need significantly more time away from the pump, what are my “safe” options?
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It seems like an odd idea to be off your pump with no insulin for more than an hour.
I start to go into DKA after about 30 min with no insulin.
Unless you are injecting some long acting insulin
However you can power off your pump, but you will need to redo the cartridge change out and prime when you restart your pump.
You can use the existing cartridge and set as long as you have at least 50 units in the cartridge.
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This is a great annoyance to me.
There are times when replacing a reservoir and infusion set just isn’t practical. I have pens for those times and maintain good control, but really wish I could just pause the alarms until I’m ready.
It is possible to do sequential 1-hour suspends but if, for example, you want to go through the night, and don’t want to go through the whole power-off hassle – which requires the pump be on the charger and disrupts the cgm signal processing – then one option is to wrap the pump in towels and put it as far away as possible. It will scream every 5 minutes until you’re ready to unmuffle and unwrap it, or until it runs out of battery. Not ideal, but it works.
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Set up a profile with the minimum basal per hour, you may lose .05 per hour, but that is only 1.2 units a day. You can keep the pump near you with no noise.
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This is a good suggestion
Another idea is to make a profile where basal insulin is set to zero. Then you can allow it to run but it won’t use insulin. Then when you switch back, you just switch profiles
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I did not know it would allow a 0 basal.
Appreciate these solutions!
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Tap options, activity, temp rate!!
You can put in 0% x time (hr:min) !! I use it often!!
After various periods of time it will remind you, but even if you don’t respond it continues!!!
It’s wonderful!!
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It’s been a consistent issue for T2s using pumps; rarely for T1s because if we go much over 1 hour our BG starts to go through the roof.
Some pumps allow 0 “basal” and some don’t; the Insulet Omnipod systems have changed. The 0.05 option is, as @Broncoman1 observed, a pretty good approximation; the extra 1.2IU over one day probably won’t mess up with the T:slim algos. (I don’t use T:slim, I used AndroidAPS.)
That said, given that it is disconnected, wrapping it in a towel and ignoring it seems pretty good too. That might be better; it knows it was disconnected so it knows that it doesn’t know how much insulin you got meantime. If something goes wrong after that point it’s its problem 